The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-14
Make Room for the Children.

Room for the children! Yes, give
the children room-whether 1t DO o.
board or bed. or steamboat or rail. cal
or omnibusl Give the children space
and time and some little human consid.
Grafton OF whatever they do or desire.
Do not push these embryo men and
women to the wall. or crowd them into
the corners. There is too much of II
done, for they are humanity's very
beauty and perfume.
And you glum. old bachelor, growing
at frequent twinges OF govt, bald pated
and bewigged, do not fancy you have
but TO nod and all the children in the
universe must stand aside or squeeze
away to give YOU room. and silence
bed soul quiet! What are youP-or
you, old maiden, with picked aspect,
In such jubilant scale of healthy
universe as the childrenp There 10
hope of them, but not much, If any, Of
youl
Children are too much koncked and
hustled about, put Off and run over, rs
II of no account Yet do you realize
that they are the expand ng seed OF the
generation of men and women soon TO
bep They have souls delicate and SEN
sitive as the very pulse of love. Do not
think thew are needless of injustice or
slight. The wrong you do them pains,
or burns, or rankles deep, and If re-
peated, accumulated may warp, and
shadow whole dswning life.
Room for the children. say we. We
were all children once, and ''of such is
the kingdom of heaven" What would
the world be without themp and what
will the children be without their fair
share of room and consideration in the
worldp
Children! Why they are the very
blossoms of life! Then do not. crush
them nor handle them too roughly.
We make an ernest plea for them for
we believe in nine cases out of ten they
are much abused, much underjudged.
They are not counted and set, and re-
spected for the priceless jewels they
are; Jewels made BY God to live for
ever and shine more and more brightly
in his image who at last shall set them
as stars in his crown. or Danish them
forever from his presence. Parents
look to It'll Which shall 1t bep How
much depends upon you, whose daily
prayer ought to be for the greater pur-
ity and beauty of their souls. Reason
W til them; love them out of their
wrong moods, and let them know you
are the best and most tender friends
they have in the world. then will the
children become the loving, reasonable
beings you would have them, and make
your life very Eden.
Happy heartedness and a joyous
spirit will befit childhood, and if treat
ed CONSIDERABLY and politely meaning
what you say, whether of reward or
punishment, will be gold to them, to
the uttermost farthng, and a long long
way the wlsest method. Make them
companions, comforters; let them DO
the very solacer of your cares, the dis
seminators of your happiness. the glory
and honor OF your homes, the most
welcome faces in all the world to
those who gave them being, and not
at the mercy and caprice of "a pair OF
grown up children" who know not
how to train the young twig- with
dispositions ruined, the wills ungovern-
ed. and in the process nuisance TO
themselves and to everybody around
them.
Room for the chldrenl Once moro
we repeat it. What dismal place
this would be without them, with only |
selfish, proud, vain, busness men, or,
worse yet Haunting, gadding, gossip
ing women to people it, and no children
to delight perfume, melodize and
make things merry! Why, il it were
not for the children the very sun itself |
would put on his nightcap and lie abed
ill doomsday! Don't you believe it,
you who are grumbers about the
keeping.